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A few years back, we had sheep and they lambed late March, early April. We rented some of our land to a local farmer, and his calves usually hit the ground in April - but it was in Iowa and a lot cooler than where you are.

So do you castrate and ear tag them?

Not until branding. That's usually in June. Old timers used to do it when they were yearlings.

I do horrible things to punctuation.If I wanted a label I'd tattoo a barcode on my ass.You know it's all fun and games until one of those petal-winged harbingers of death sticks its proboscis in your eye and sucks your gray-matter out through your retina.

Beware! Stranger wandering into the saloon. Looking for the demon that wandered out of Miss Kitty Sunday. I done read all about it in that there story posted in SYW - suckered me in thinking it was about hunger. But now I'm out looking for the demon. Nasty one!